Submitted Name
SaveType Settlement
Usage Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish
Pronounced Pron. pə-NAWM PEHN(English) NAWM PEHN(English) PNAWM PEHN(French) pnawm PEHN(German) [key·IPA]
[Meaning & History
From Khmer ភ្នំពេញ (phnum pɨñ) meaning "Penh's hill", from ភ្នំ (phnum) meaning "hill, mountain" and ពេញ (pɨñ), the name of a legendary woman who supposedly founded the city in 1372. This is the name of the capital city of Cambodia.